Improvement in animal-weaning bits



A. BARTLETT & A. J. BARTLETT, Jr.

ANIMAL WEARING-BIT.

Patented March 7, 1 8.76;

N- PEIERS, PHOT FREE, WASHINGTON, 1C.

. To all whom it may concern the county of Tama and State of Iowa, have Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section of the'same .on the line 0 c, Fig. 1.

' sponding parts.

, allows the ready removing of the same withsucking bit,fwith centralperforated swell,

ingbit, made of tubular shape, with station- UNITED STATES ALFRED BARTLETT AND ALFRED J.

PATENT OEEIoE.

BARTLETT, JR, 0F TOLEDO, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN ANlMAL-WEANING BITS.

v Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 174,406, dated March 7, 1876 application filed January Be it known that we, ALFRED BARTLETT and ALFRED J. BARTLETT, J r., of Toledo, in

invented a new and Improved Anti-Sucking Bit-for Calves, &c., of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 represents a sectional top view of our improved anti-sucking bit for calves and Similar letters of reference indicate corre- The invention relates to an improved antisucking bit for calves, &c., which is not liable to be stopped up by hay or grass, and which out taking the bit out of the mouth of the animal. I

The invention consists of a hollow antistationary end loops, and open ends. In' the drawing, A represents the anti-suckary loops B in the ends in place of rings. A central swell or enlargement, O, of the bit is provided with perforations a, at opposite side of the same, which, in addition to holes b at the inside of the bit, intermediately between the perforations a of the swell, prevent the entire stopping up of the bit by hay or grass, as 'one or the other of the holes will always remain open. The tubular bit A is open at both ends to allow the clearing out of the holes I),

ment, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A hollow anti-sucking bit for calves, provided with stationary e'nd loops and open ends,

'for the purpose described.

. ALFRED BARTLETT.

ALFRED J. BARTLETT, JR. 

